al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2488
✧ Ransoming captives
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أَخْبَرَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ، ثَنَا أَسْبَاطُ بْنُ نَصْرٍ الْهَمْدَانِيُّ، عَنِ السُّدِّيِّ، عَنْ عَبْدِ خَيْرٍ، قَالَ:
غَزَوْنَا مَعَ سَلْمَانَ بْنِ رَبِيعَةَ إِلَى بَلَنْجَرَ فَحَاصَرْنَا أَهْلَهَا، فَبَيْنَمَا نَحْنُ كَذَلِكَ إِذْ رُمِيَ سَلْمَانُ بِحَجَرٍ، فَأَصَابَ رَأْسَهُ، فَقَالَ: إِنْ مُتُّ فَادْفِنُونِي فِي أَصْلِ هَذِهِ الْمَدِينَةِ، فَمَاتَ فَدَفَنَّاهُ حَيْثُ قَالَ، فَحَاصَرْنَا أَهْلَهَا فَفَتَحْنَا الْمَدِينَةَ وَأَصَبْنَا سَبْيًا وَأَمْوَالًا كَثِيرَةً، وَأَصَابَ رَجُلٌ مِنَّا أَلْفَ دِرْهَمٍ وَأَكْثَرَ، فَلَمَّا أَقْبَلْنَا رَاجِعِينَ انْتَهَيْنَا إِلَى مَكَانٍ يُقَالُ لَهُ: السَّدُّ، فَلَمْ نُطِقْ أَنْ نَأْخُذَ فِيهِ حَتَّى اسْتَبْطَنَّا الْبَحْرَ، فَخَرَجْنَا عَلَى مُوقَانَ وَجِيلَانَ وَالدَّيْلَمِ، فَجَعَلْنَا لَا نَمُرُّ بِقَوْمٍ إِلَّا سَأَلُونَا الصُّلْحَ، وَأَعْطَوْنَا الرَّهْنَ، حَتَّى أَيِسَ النَّاسُ مِنَّا هَاهُنَا يَعْنِي بِالْكُوفَةِ، وَبَكَوْا عَلَيْنَا وَقَالَ فِينَا الشُّعَرَاءُ. قَالَ: فَاشْتَرَى عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ سَلَامٍ ؓ يَهُودِيَّةً بِسَبْعِمِائَةِ دِرْهَمٍ، فَلَمَّا مَرَّ بِرَأْسِ الْجَالُوتِ نَزَلَ بِهِ، فَقَالَ عَبْدُ اللهِ: يَا رَأْسَ الْجَالُوتِ، هَلْ لَكَ فِي عَجُوزٍ مِنْ قَوْمِكَ تَشْتَرِيهَا مِنِّي ؟ فَقَالَ: نَعَمْ. فَقَالَ: أَخَذْتُهَا بِسَبْعِمِائَةِ دِرْهَمٍ. فَقَالَ: وَلَكَ رِبْحُ سَبْعِمِائَةِ دِرْهَمٍ. قَالَ: فَقُلْتُ: لَا. قَالَ: فَلَا حَاجَةَ لِي بِهَا. قُلْتُ: وَاللهِ لَتَأْخُذَنَّهَا بِمَا قَامَتْ أَوْ لَتَكْفُرَنَّ بِدِينِكَ الَّذِي أَنْتَ عَلَيْهِ. فَقَالَ: وَاللهِ لَا أَشْتَرِيهَا مِنْكَ بِشَيْءٍ أَبَدًا. قَالَ: فَقَالَ لَهُ عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ سَلَامٍ ؓ: ادْنُ، فَدَنَا مِنْهُ، فَقَرَأَ عَلَيْهِ مَا فِي التَّوْرَاةِ: إِنَّكَ لَا تَجِدُ مَمْلُوكًا مِنْ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ إِلَّا اشْتَرَيْتَهُ بِمَا قَامَ فَأَعْتَقَهُ. قَالَ: وَإِنْ يَأْتُوكُمْ أُسَارَى تُفَادُوهُمْ وَهُوَ مُحَرَّمٌ عَلَيْكُمْ إِخْرَاجُهُمْ أَفَتُؤْمِنُونَ بِبَعْضِ الْكِتَابِ وَتَكْفُرُونَ بِبَعْضٍ... الْآيَةَ، فَقَالَ: وَاللهِ لَأَشْتَرِيَنَّهَا مِنْكَ بِمَا قَامَتْ. قَالَ: فَإِنِّي حَلَفْتُ أَنْ لَا أَنْقُصَهَا مِنْ أَرْبَعَةِ آلَافِ دِرْهَمٍ. قَالَ: فَجَاءَهُ بِأَرْبَعَةِ آلَافِ دِرْهَمٍ، فَرَدَّ عَلَيْهِ أَلْفَيْ دِرْهَمٍ وَأَخَذَ أَلْفَيْنِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAmr b. Muḥammad
- Asbāṭ b. Naṣr al-Hamdānī
- al-Suddī
- ʿAbd Khayr
✧ We raided with Salman b. Rabi'ah to Balanjar and besieged its people. While we were doing so, Salman was struck by a stone that hit his head. He said: "If I die, bury me at the base of this city wall." He died, so we buried him where he said. We besieged its people and conquered the city, taking many captives and much wealth. One of our men got a thousand dirhams or more. When we set out to return, we reached a place called al-Sadd, and we could not pass through it until we went inland via the sea. We came out at Muqan, Jilan, and al-Daylam. We did not pass by any people except that they asked us for peace and gave us hostages, until the people despaired of us here—meaning in Kufah—and wept for us, and poets composed verses about us. Abdullah b. Salam ؓ bought a Jewish woman for seven hundred dirhams. When he passed by the Exilarch, he stopped at his place. Abdullah said: "O Exilarch, would you like an old woman from your people? Buy her from me." He said: "Yes." Abdullah said: "I took her for seven hundred dirhams." He said: "You may have a profit of seven hundred dirhams." He (Abdullah) said: "I said: No." The Exilarch said: "Then I have no need of her." I said: "By Allah, you will take her for what she cost, or you will disbelieve in the religion you follow." He said: "By Allah, I will never buy her from you for anything." Abdullah b. Salam ؓ said to him: "Come close." He came close, and Abdullah recited to him what is in the Torah: "You will not find a slave from the Children of Israel except that you buy him for what he cost and set him free." And: "If they come to you as captives, you ransom them, though expelling them is forbidden to you. Do you believe in part of the Book and disbelieve in part?"—the verse. He said: "By Allah, I will buy her from you for what she cost." Abdullah said: "I swear not to reduce her below four thousand dirhams." He brought him four thousand dirhams, and Abdullah returned two thousand dirhams to him and took two thousand.
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
هذا إسناد حسن
machine translationThis chain of transmission is good (ḥasan).
in المطالب العالية, p. 2488
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 43 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ سَلَامِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ الْإِسْرَائِيلِيُّصحابيقال
- mukhaḍram, trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 81 AH and 90 AHعَبْدِ خَيْرٍمخضرم ، ثقةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), makes errors (yahim), accused of Shiism (tashayyuʿ)d. 127 AH, or 129 AHالسُّدِّيِّصدوق ، يهم ، ورمي بالتشيععن
- truthful (ṣadūq), makes many mistakes, narrates odd reports (yughrib)d. between 161 and 170 AHأَسْبَاطُ بْنُ نَصْرٍ الْهَمْدَانِيُّصدوق كثير الخطأ يغربحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. before 200 AHعَمْرُو بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍثقةأخبرنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AHإسحاق ابن راهويهثقة حافظ مجتهد
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